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From: bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt)
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Subject: Re: Program-independent rastports
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Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 12:07:18 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 19 12:07:18 1987
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In article <492@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> rokicki@rocky.UUCP (Tomas Rokicki) writes:
>In article <> someone_else typed:
>>
>> As far as my suggestion for a Draw: device goes, my dream would be to use it
>> as follows: [dream follows]
>
>With Bill Hawes' REXX [your "Dream comes alive!" (Hi, Pixar :-)]
>
>If you are interested in REXX (which you should be), please call Bill
>Hawes at 617 568-8695.

The key to REXX's success will be a critical mass of programs that have REXX
interface ports.  I wish that Bill Hawes would widely distribute a sample REXX
application that does something like:


Open a custom screen
Allow the mouse-user to draw rubber-band lines.

And include a second REXX program that:

Calls the first program to draw a bunch of lines, corresponding to some
mathematical formula.


Include on that disk descriptions, include files and samples of how to add
REXX to *your* program.  Since REXX is a commercial product, a person adding
a REXX port to their program would still need to buy the actual REXX disk
and manual... so the address, price and phone number of Bill's company
would need to be included.

Send free copies to Electronic Arts, Ageis, MicroIllusions, Terrapin, etc.
Think if Dpaint III has a REXX interface... that would sell at lot of REXX.

Bill gave a talk on REXX at a BADGE meeting.  I feel it was a weak
presentation in that it gave near-zero developer type information at a
meeting of the "Bay Area Developer's GroupE".   Again, REXX is a minimal
addition to a program; but it has to be added.  I wanted to add REXX
to a program... but I could not easily get the information, and thus
have not done it.

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